iOS 5 is jam packed with new and awesome features, so when can you get your hands on it? Developers will get beta builds today, but the iOS 5 public release date is set for Fall of 2011. From the looks of it, it’s well worth the wait.

The next natural question is, what hardware is iOS 5 going to be compatible with?

iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4

iPad and iPad 2

iPod Touch 3rd and 4th gen

Missing from the list is Apple TV2, but I suspect that will change in the near future. The other missing piece is the price, but considering a price wasn’t stated, I suspect it will be a free update.

By pay so much, you mean the same as most other tablets out there? Tablets (Android, looking at you) that sometimes don’t even get the newest OS update because the manufacturer don’t see it as cost effective to spend time on old (1year) hardware.

I’d much rather pay for a device I know will get updates rather than buy a device for the same price that I know might probably get the update at some point, maybe. Sure, i can root it and install the new OS myself, but most of the time, even that gets released “at some point when we get to it”.
Screw that. I’d actually pay 100bucks more just to future proof myself. There are android tablets both cheaper and more expensive than the iPad. Turns out, making tablets cheap wasn’t as easy as people expected, and the iPad hit the price pretty much spot on.

yes, its always had that feature. go to your settings, general, then accessibility. its under large text where you can change the font size of the calendar, contacts, mail, messages and notes. hope this helps

Many aspects of iOS 5 are at least influenced by jailbreaking apps, but I think this is just Apple listening to what their customers want. There’s a lot of great developers in the jailbreak world with a lot of good ideas, Apple pays attention.

You mean iPhone 5(3.5gs) of course. There is no 4G network yet. It was decided that the difference was to complex for the average consumer to understand. Confusion has been caused by some mobile carriers who have launched products advertised as 4G but which are actually current technologies, commonly referred to as 3.9G at best, which do not follow the ITU-R defined principles for 4G standards.

Stolen from the jailbreak? They were stolen from Android! lmao! I guess they got tired of being replicated and decided to go ahead and try a little replication themselves. Either way, I’m looking forward to getting the update on my iPad 2.

Totally stolen from Android! I have an iPad 2 and an android phone and I’m looking very forward to this upcoming update. My android phone is much easier to navigate due in part to the drop down notifications window.

Finally, someone says the truth at least. I think, both iOs and android are both great pieces of design, and we don’t need to demean one in order to boast the other. I personally prefer iPad over honeycomb because I find the latter too distracting to me, though I would always prefer android over the iPhone, and on both sides am eagerly waiting for the iOS 5 and ice-cream sandwich.. !!!

yeah but with this new IOS 5 update there will be no need to jailbreak.
i have the beta of IOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and i love it! its everything you need and more! im waiting for it to be released so me and my friends can iMessage!
its amazing

WE.NEED.FLASH. If they looked everywhere on the ios for improvement, then why didn’t they see this gapping hole! Before everyone stops me and start to say that the flash would make the iphone lag on the internet, why not make flash a feature that you could switch on and off, just like the text-reader that they’re incorporating. I know alot of people, including myself, would gladly give up some speed for the option of having flash content.

I’m pretty sure you can get by most of the web without flash (in the case of iOS who needs flash games when you have such a great app store) and i think the problem isn’t it being slow but it draining battery life. the only possible reason you would need flash is to play videos that aren’t html 5 and there’s an app called skyfire for that so I really don’t see the problem. Unless you want flash ads in a lot of your web browsing sucking your battery life.

I have one scenario for you. I was on vacation and wanted to see the box scores of the NCAA College World Series. I went to the website to see the bracket. The bracket had flash. I had to go out of my way to find some other spot that mentioned who had won. The box scores worked, but the in-depth coverage was completely inaccessible. I am a major South Carolina fan and I missed one game of the CWS. I could have had a nice browsing experience if the browser had flash.

SkyFire only works on videos so that wasn’t even an option. iOS needs flash so that websites like that can function to their fullest. I am disappointed in Apple.

Im not downloading crap from cydia even cydia! I did On My Ipod Touch 4g i just got it and it gave me the white screen of death!!! so i had to restore my whole fkin ipod -.- but i got all off my stuff back expt my pics and videos and contacs -.-

AGREED.WE.DON’T
Flash is the hole! A great big security hole with a long-standing, lazy and expensive development crew. We don’t need it. There’s not a single site that I can’t live without that requires Flash.

Say what you will about being able to live without flash. Until Apple adds this functionality to its devices, they can search every corner of thier OS as long as they want. Its equivalent to searching all over for pests in your home while having a huge ant mound in your living room.

Yea flash is a big let down but it causes alot of crashes within apple products. And id rather not have flash and wait a while longer till they can add it without my ipad crashing. Ive managed without it so far infact millions of people have managed without it.

People who don’t understand the process and function of flash and how it destroys iOS will always say ignorant things. Flash is a dead end it’s outdated. Apple can see how it would be more trouble than anything to add it to iOS. Why put a sick fish in the bowl? Frankly, if you don’t or can’t see the light here, then apple really don’t need you as a customer.

If you want to play flash, download the skyfire browser app (on iPad 2 for sure) and this will convert the flash video to HTML5 on their server and resend it to the browser and can be streamed…easy…no need for flash, which will be needed less and less with the introduction and adoption of HTML5 throughout the web

I almost agree with you but I can’t. The world will NOT reformat everything in existence just to coincide with what Apple is doing.

Flash video is not the only flash thing in existence. Slideshows, scoreboards, media coverage, animations… The web uses tons of flash content and none of it can be played on iOS. SkyFire only works (poorly) on videos. It does not give you flash. It doesn’t change your browser to let you access sports coverage that requires flash. All it does is video, and it can only do that on certain websites.

I don’t think this will be a free update. iOS4 was not free. Also, there is a comment in the info for iCloud that it will be “free with iOS5”, that indicates there will be a fee for the iOS5 update. But, to be honest, last time it was only about $30 to update… and with all the improvements, I would even be willing to pay more than that for this new iOS!!!

I thought iOS 4 was free… I have it on my iPhone and I didn’t pay for it. Plus, “free with iOS 5” is just telling people that iCloud is not just for mobile me users. Since mobile me is centered in the “cloud,” the name “iCloud” may confuse people. Apple wont charge us just to update our phones, iOS 5 will be free like the updates before it :)

The only time the iOS needs to be purchased is with the iPod Touch. The iPhones have always been free, (I do now have an iPad, so I do not know about them). The update has always been $10. I think you might be confused with the OS X Lion being $29 dollars to upgrade.

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If apple puts a dual core and LTE from Verizon in the iphone 5, I’ll switch… if i can hack it and get free tethering. I cant stand the thought of paying for unlimited data and then paying to share some of my “unlimited” data with another of my devices. For now though, Android is the only way I’ll keep a contract with a carrier. Not a hater, my ipad 2 rocks. best of both worlds baby, best of both.

Wow, they said they looked in every corner and asked themselves “What can we do?” False they looked in every corner and said “TO CYDIA!!!”
Yet they still can’t make the iOS official as good as iOS jailbroken.
I’m disappointed Apple, very disappointed.

“TO CYDIA” that’s hilarious!
But it’s so true, so many things have been added from cydia, like exact replicas… I hope developers can turn around and do the same, porting the things Apple actually came up with to older devices… That’d be some epic pwning…

I agree with both of you. Apple takes whatever they please but nobody does anything because they can’t. At least developers in Cydia can get paid for their work now. Some people buy Cydia packages. Others just use the insanelyi repo to get everything for free, but that’s not the point.

There are a few things that Apple has done in the past that they took from Cydia but made MUCH better. Cut, Copy, and Paste in iOS is so much better than it was with the jailbreak. I was a jailbreaker of the iPod touch 2nd gen way back when. I have seen some of the older Cydia stuff and it doesn’t come close to what Apple has done. I do agree though… they copy so much nowadays.

Am a person who really likes and loves to keep something original and genuine the way it was made and as i purchased it,, so i can never think of jailbreak. apple products are really fine without jailbreak.

The apple warranty is 90 days, unless you have an extended warranty. Which you pay for, but if you walked into an apple store with a jailbroken iPad/iPhone, then they would turn you away. If you restore your phone, it doesn’t kill the warranty. If you jailbreak, it does. But if you Jailbreak then restore to official iOS, then that warranty status would be still in warranty, unless it’s out side 90 days.

Your actually wrong. The 90 days does not apply, you have something like 14 days to return the phone. But aside from that when you buy and iPhone from the apple store it comes with a 1 year limted warranty. The extended just adds an extra year.

Why does everyone moan about outdated flash… Ive had my ipad a year now and never even notice that it lacks flash…
Theres an app for all most every thing out there and with html5 now being supported by all majpr players… Well flash is old school and those that moan,, well your juat showing your age lol.

That information is untrue, Jailbroken iphones an ipod touches are now legal due to the fact that Steve jobs tried to file it to make it illegal, The mpaa/RIAA SAid Newp, it gives a chance for us to brace our knowledge and make our own unsigned apps and stuff

I had my ipod jailbroken, but a cracked Screen with Extended wararanty, Bestbuy REplaced it without no problem, They even saw Cydia on there, you only void warranty if you open the device

The reason Apple hasn’t signed a contract with Adobe Flash is because they believe in HTML5… They believe it’s far better than flash player and will be revolutionary, however HTML5 is a work in progress still and will take a few years to be finished. But HTML5 can play videos and has no holes in security and doesn’t need constant updating. Soon, all apple products will have HTML5 and won’t have a hole in viewing any videos or really at all. Although HTML5 isn’t finished yet, there are beta versions out… Another problem with apple being problems integrating HTML5 in to the iOS.

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Really? So is that like saying Apple OS X was ripped off from BSD Unix? Come on people these arguments are retarded. The iPhone was not the first smartphone on the market. Everyone rips stuff off…it’s progress…sometimes.

With the new notification feature, it says you are able to listen to voicemails and read text messages with the swipe of a finger when its on the lock screen, but my question is, if you have a password set, will you have to type the password in first? Or will it automatically unlock it? My parents and friends like to take my phone and mess with it but I dont want them to be able to just go through my stuff.

Every update for iOS that I have gotten so far has been free, why would this one be any different? No need to assume it because a price wasn’t stated, assume it because it’s been that way for every other update.

I am impressed with many of the new features on os 5, but one feature that is noticeably missing is the number keys on the virtual keyboard. Apple could add an option to have the number keys show as half keys on top. This would save time in shifting. I noticed that there are a lot of times when I was tipping that my text combines a mix of numbers and text.

I think that there should be an option for picture folders and have the option of hiding them with a password, I work with kids and I paintball but we dont allow guns where I work so when the kids look through my pics they see that and I have to go into a long explanation of how it is a sport and not just shooting people. I am sure there are many other reasons to hide pics too but it should be an option, at the very least have a folder that people can look at and one that is private????

I have an Iphone4 that i’ve recently been able to use another carrier other than the default At&t all thanks to the Gevey chip. My question is when IOS is being released is it advisable to update to the IOS 5 and the Gevey Sim will still work? Dont want to fall into Apple’s trap! Lol.…

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im an apple employ….currently usin ipad 3 whicch has come for testing…it is amazing…and plzz dont buy ipad2 it is nothin in front of ipad3 which is half the weight of it and half thick…retina display….8 megapixel camera with flash and 2 megapixel ahead….working on ios5 it is heavenly…!!!!!…i didnt reveal my name as im scared…this is just for apple lovers..!!!